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By Kat Tanaka Okopnik, Howard Dyckoff, and Deividson Luiz Okopnik
News in General
MySQL announces 5.1 GA, future 6.0 dual version
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openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1 Announced
Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) LTS Desktop and Server Editions Released
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Vyatta Community Edition 4 Scales from Branch Office to Data Center
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By Deividson Luiz Okopnik

Stored Procedures are pre-compiled subroutines that are stored inside the database. They allow you to select and manipulate data, and, with the use of control structures and loops, perform complex computations and return the calculated result to the client. This saves considerable amounts of client/server communication.

By Edgar Howell

At the recent CeBIT computer fair, Klaus Knopper finally released a new version of his popular Knoppix live-CD/DVD variety of GNU/Linux. The initial version was fine for the CeBIT crowd but had some problems, the most obvious of which was a mixture of languages in menus if you booted with the parameter "lang=" (by the way, it is now "lang=us" rather than "lang=en"; this will take getting used to after many years of using "lang=en".)

By Kapil Hari Paranjape

Nowadays one reads a lot about virtualization. The Gazette even ran an article on it. Most of these reports talk about Xen, Vserver, OpenVZ, Qemu, User Mode Linux or co-Linux. Each of those modern technologies has its place no doubt, but this article will concentrate on the humble chroot way of running programs in a virtual environment.

By Aurelian Melinte

The dynamic linker allows us to override functions exported by the shared objects that are used by programs. In this article, we will use this interposition functionality and build a library that wraps around the 'pthreads' library to diagnose mutex-related problems, including the well-known deadlock.

By René Pfeiffer

In the first part of this series, we took a look at various methods that help us to index text and to facilitate text searches. The approaches were focused on SQL databases. Provided you don't get nervous about abandoning SQL queries, I can show you another way to build an index and to query it for your favourite phrase. Prepare to meet Lucene!

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The basic steps involved in this process are:

By Amit Kumar Saha

Software RAID is RAID implemented with software - no additional hardware such as a RAID controller is needed. Thus, software RAID is a good starting point to start getting some hands-on RAID experience. Also, software RAID is independent of proprietary management software - maintaining a software RAID works the same way on all machines that run Linux. However, there is something to think about too: when considering software RAID, think about performance. All RAID algorithms are done by the system CPU and every block has to be copied over the system's data bus (i.e. sda1 <-> IO controller <-> RAM, possibly CPU <-> IO controller <-> sdb1). (Thanks to René Pfeiffer of the Answer Gang for pointing that out.)

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By Howard Dyckoff and Kat Tanaka Okopnik
Contents:
News in General
Sun Pockets MySQL
AMD Acknowledges Faux Pas, Plans for New 8-way Opteron
Intel Splits from OLPC Board
JBuilder 2007 Named "Best Java IDE"
SCO-Novell Damage Claims Get a Court Date
Exist Global Acquires DevZuz
Eaton Corp/UbuntuIHV Certification
TuxMobil Now Offers 7,000 Linux Guides for the Laptop
Open Moko
Demonstrating Open Source Health Care Solutions (DOHCS '08) atSCaLE
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Restful Ruby on Rails 2.0 Arrives on Track
Debian 4.0.r2 Patches Security
FreeBSD 6.3 Released
openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1 in Testing
MEPIS 7.0 is Released for Christmas
X.Org 7.4 Planned for Feb '08
Software & Products
Perl 5.10 Released, First Update in 5 Years
Scribus 1.3.3.10
Public Beta of VMware Stage Manager
Apatar Open Source Data Integration Partners with MySQL AB
Emerson, Liebert Introduce Software-Scalable Ups
Good OS Announces Debut of gOS 2.0 "Rocket" at CES
Concurrent NightStar LX
Magical Realism
Nanowire Battery Can Hold 10x the Charge

By Kumar Appaiah

With graphical user interfaces becoming more and more friendly and easy to use, new users of GNU/Linux and the BSDs can now get their daily work done without having to tinker around (very often) with a terminal. However, many users don't like to use a GUI for every task, and find that they necessarily need to depend on some terminal, or shell. Sometimes, one has to log in to a remote machine, without a GUI. At other times, we just have to run a `console' based application. Under such situations, there are several ways in which a utility like screen can be put to efficient use.

By Howard Dyckoff

Small can be beautiful, as the adage goes. This can be especially true at a small conference with a few focused tracks that are smack on for your interests. On the other hand, a big conference increases the networking opportunities and also usually offers a large vendor expo. More vendors often means more literature and swag, but also more noise -- both literally on the show floor and figuratively with 'Me-Too' keynotes and marketing slideware. Those vendors are prospecting and the target is on your back.

By Alessandro Franci

Have you ever dreamt about booting Linux in less than one minute? Now this dream can come true: in less than 40 seconds after pressing the power button, you will have a perfect fully-functional operating system, exactly as you left the last session. Even better than you thought, right? Now you could say: "Crazy boy - I don't believe you!" Well then, check it out for yourself.